Yongwu shi (Chinese: 咏物诗, 'poetry on things') is a Chinese poetic form entailing the detailed description of things.
The name of yongwu shi is inspired by the earlier term yongwu fu (Chinese: 咏物赋), meaning rhymed prose describing things. As this genre became established, it incorporated new forms, including shi. The form emerged as part of palace-style poetry during the late fifth and the sixth centuries CE, that is during the final three Southern dynasties (Qi, Liang and Chen).